Patricia Cameron
1918-2015, artist and actress

PATRICIA CAMERON (screen name), also known as Patricia Cammer (maiden name) and Patricia Tunberg (married name) was born on 20 February, 1918 and passed from this world on 17 November 2015.

Members of Patricia' s family are creators and caretakers of this Website. Accurate biographical information about Patricia is in short supply. What has been available to date consists of a few official documents, pictures, her screen credits, recollections on the part of family members, and stories which Patricia told about her early life, in which details about date or chronological sequence were only rarely apparent.

Patricia's parents were English. Her father Walter Walford Cammer (1881-1944) was born in Prestwich, Lancashire. But for the first two decades of the twentieth century Walter Cammer seems to have had his primary residence in Los Angeles, California where he lived with his English wife Dorothy Monitz (born in England about 1883). Their daughter Patricia was born in Los Angeles in 1918. Patricia’s sister Marjorie was also perhaps born in Los Angeles (however, we have no certain information about this). It is pretty clear that by 1920 Walter had acquired US citizenship - so his name appears on a 1920 census document. His name is on a selective service document from 1918, and he registered to vote in the presidential election of 1922. By the late 1930s, Walter and his family seem to have moved back to England, where Walter died in 1944 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. The reasons why Walter and Dorothy took up residence in California and then returned to England have remained unclear to us. Patricia as a young adult, perhaps following the outbreak of the second world war, went back to Los Angeles, where a member of her family, namely her uncle Henry Merton, was still in residence. Patricia would remain in Los Angeles for much of the rest of her life. While still young, and not long after her migration to California, she became a screen actress. She played roles in several Hollywood films, including Kitty (1945) and Dressed to Kill (1946). She was married to the screenwriter Karl Tunberg from the later 1940s until 1966, by whom she had two children Terence Tunberg and Thomas Tunberg. She was also a graphic artist in various media. Here we display some of the images she created. Most of them date from the 1940s. A few, created by Patricia as a child or adolescent, were created in the 1930s.